//------------------------------// // Chapter 10- It's Just A Phase // Story: Reformed Unicorn Group Podcast // by Quoterific //------------------------------// "Starlight, is it true that you had a phase once?" Trixie questioned her friend with a smirk, causing Starlight to spew her coffee from her mug. Coughing with a flustered, bright red face, she turned to Trixie with alarm. "How did you know about that?! And it's just a phase!" Starlight tried to salvage her dignity. "Oh, just a certain childhood crush of yours told us about your old room from one your so-called friendship missions," Trixie slyly hinted. Starlight facehoofed. "Sunburst is sure to get it when I see him again," Starlight groaned, "And he is not my crush!" "Just keep telling yourself that, Starlight," Trixie grinned, "Just keep telling yourself that." "You had a phase?" Sunset questioned, "What sort of phase?" "A punk-goth phase," Starlight sighed, "That was when Sunburst left to be a student and Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns." "No wonder you decided to create a cult," Tempest teased. Starlight just rolled your eyes. "It sounds ridiculous when you say it like that, you know?" Starlight warned, "The stares I'll get when this is over will be unbearable. But I have come far from that moment. Twilight othered her hoof of friendship to me when I was at my lowest point. Now I am here talking about my past to help others not go down the same path I took. I mean our bad guy moments are also a phase, right?" "You mean, I had a Breakaway-Bad-Girl-Bully Phase?" Sunset sarcastically said, "I'm hurt. However, That is technically not wrong with how I treated everyone back at Canterlot High. But Twilight and my new friends helped me get back on my feet. Though, I do think I have the usually anger phases." "That would explain why you're red and yellow. That anger is getting to your mane," Trixie sniggered. Sunset glared at the Great and Powerful Trixie. "I was born this way, thank you very much!" Sunset shouted. "Okay Sunset. No need to burn like a sunset itself," Trixie jabbed. Tempest decided to think about her 'phase' before. "And I had a Join-A-Supposed-Bad-Guy-That-Betrays-Me phase?" Tempest mocked, "That sounds about right. But Twilight helped me show that my horn is just as powerful and the more friends the merrier." Tempest smiled at the memory. "A moment when you became friends with the bad guy and he betrays you, and it's the good guy that shows you the right path" Trixie rolled her eyes, "That sounds predictable as ever. Who would do such a thing?" "Discord?" Tempest and Starlight said together. "Point taken..." Trixie trailed off, "I will not forgive him for making literal pigs fly. It was just an expression!" "With Discord, everything is literal," Starlight giggled. "Whatever, Great and Powerful Boast-A-Lot. That seems to be your phase every time," Sunset hit back for all of Trixie's mockery. Starlight sniggered. "The Great and Powerful Trixie always requires her presence to be known, on the stage or in a studio," Trixie proudly declared, "Trixie must shock and awe the audience with her tricks and daring deeds in order to capture said audience's attention!" "Yeah," Starlight sarcastically mocked, "As if that isn't boasting. Didn't your boast almost cost you with that Ursa Minor?" "Trixie has come far from that low point, thank you!" Trixie huffed, "However, she came back with a vengeful phase with that cursed Alicorn Amulet. I even had to work on Pinkie's rock farm to earn it!" "You were lucky a rock farm took the likes of you!" Pinkie shouted whilst trying her new icing record, "Wait. Didn't I say that before?" "But it's safe to say," Starlight concluded, "That we are all in a good friendship phase, right?" She turned to the others who agreed with confidence. "Did you play the guitar?" Sunset turned to starlight, "I do for the Rainbooms back at Canterlot High." "Yes, I did," Starlight said, "Imagine if we were in a band? Could you imagine that?" "The Reformed Unicorn Rockers?" Tempest joked, "Who would listen to something like that?" "Presenting, the Great and Powerful RUR!" Trixie introduced theatrically, "Starring Trixie on vocals, Sunset and Starlight on guitars and Tempest on drums! Now that sounds like something cool" Trixie approved. "It will take time to adjust from fingers to hooves though," Sunset though solemnly, "Being in one band is good enough for me." "Just an idea," Trixie mused, "Just an idea. That's all for today ponies and creatures!"